edlibR: R Integration for Edlib, the C/C++ Library for Exact Pairwise Sequence Alignment using Edit (Levenshtein) Distance (original) (raw)
Bindings to edlib, a lightweight performant C/C++ library for exact pairwise sequence alignment using edit distance (Levenshtein distance). The algorithm computes the optimal alignment path, but also can be used to find only the start and/or end of the alignment path for convenience. Edlib was designed to be ultrafast and require little memory, with the capability to handle very large sequences. Three alignment methods are supported: global (Needleman-Wunsch), infix (Hybrid Wunsch), and prefix (Semi-Hybrid Wunsch). The original C/C++ library is described in "Edlib: a C/C++ library for fast, exact sequence alignment using edit distance", M. Šošić, M. Šikić, <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw753>.
| Version: | 1.0.3 |
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| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Imports: | Rcpp (≥ 1.0.5), stringr (≥ 1.4.0) |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp |
| Suggests: | testthat (≥ 3.1.0), rmarkdown, knitr |
| Published: | 2025-07-20 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.edlibR |
| Author: | Martin Šošić [aut], Travers Ching [ctb], Evan Biederstedt [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Evan Biederstedt <evan.biederstedt at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/evanbiederstedt/edlibR/issues |
| License: | MIT + file |
| URL: | https://github.com/evanbiederstedt/edlibR |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Materials: | README |
| CRAN checks: | edlibR results |
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